Cost of the crown part 2: Duchies, diamonds and Dalis
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, the second episode in our cost of the Crown mini-series |
| 0:12.0 | about the secret world of royal wealth. |
| 0:15.0 | What's public, what's private, and who gets to decide? |
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| 0:54.0 | We've come to the Tower of London, right back in the centre of the city, |
| 0:57.0 | right by the river. There's tons of people presumably tourists around, |
| 1:01.0 | school trips and the like. |
| 1:03.0 | I make the trip across London with investigations correspondent David Pegg. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't think I've been in here to see the Crown Jules before, |
| 1:10.0 | so it's quite new for me and a bit of a different thing to be doing |
| 1:13.0 | for a Guardian workday, right David? |
| 1:15.0 | Yes. |
| 1:16.0 | We're researching royal wealth, so it makes sense to head for the public display |
| 1:20.0 | of some of their greatest treasures. |
| 1:23.0 | So coronation is in a couple of months, |
| 1:26.0 | that's going to involve Crown Jules, the regalia, |
| 1:30.0 | these kind of essential items and artifacts of British history, |
| 1:34.0 | which are going to be worn in public in a way that they're otherwise not really |
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